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American Oversight Releases Report on Anti-ERIC Push and Its Threat to 2024 Election

The report provides a behind-the-scenes look at how the election denial movement led several states to abandon the bipartisan Electronic Registration Information Center — and what it means for voting rights and U.S. democracy.
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Newsletter: Constitutional Sheriffs Want to Interfere in Election Administration

April 19, 2024
Sheriffs and election deniers gathered in Nevada this week to discuss and encourage efforts to undermine the public’s trust in elections.

Newsletter: The Lies That Bind

April 12, 2024
American Oversight is investigating the election denial movement’s connections to voter-fraud extremists and efforts to restrict voting in 2024.

American Oversight Condemns Louisiana HB 461 as Another Attempt to Erode Access to Public Records

April 11, 2024
The bill, which passed the Louisiana House on Thursday, would significantly weaken the state’s public records law by extending the ability of local governments to suppress records of business dealings.

In the Documents: North Carolina Educators Scramble to Comply with State’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law

April 11, 2024
Records obtained by American Oversight and reported on by the Charlotte Observer provide behind-the-scenes details regarding educators’ efforts to comply with the discriminatory Parents’ Bill of Rights.

Newsletter: Texas Ruling on Anti-Trans Investigations, Louisiana’s ERIC Withdrawal, and Jeffrey Clark’s Disciplinary Trial

April 5, 2024
Last week, a Texas appeals court upheld injunctions in a pair of lawsuits that block the state from investigating parents of children receiving gender-affirming care.

Records Provide More Evidence of How Far-Right Conspiracy Theories Influenced Louisiana’s Departure from ERIC

April 4, 2024
Text messages we obtained, reported on by Votebeat, provide more evidence of how the fringe Gateway Pundit website influenced the state’s 2022 withdrawal from the nonpartisan voter-roll maintenance organization.

Texas Court Upholds Injunctions Barring State from Investigating Families of Transgender Children

April 3, 2024
The Texas Court of Appeals upheld previously issued injunctions that bar the state from investigating families providing gender-affirming care to their children.

Newsletter: Accountability for Architects of 2020 Election Interference

March 29, 2024
This week, a disciplinary hearing began for former Trump Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, and a California judge recommended the disbarment of pro-Trump attorney John Eastman.